Just curious..I haven't seen any talk of this in quite a while.
Has there been any progress worth getting excited over, or is
this on the back burner?

Walter has been doing a bunch of work towards improving safe stuff, which,
as I understand it, is required for us to add ref-counted classes. So, I
think that it's on the back burner in the sense that it's not currently
being worked on directly, but work _is_ being done towards it.
- Jonathan M Davis

Just curious..I haven't seen any talk of this in quite a
while. Has there been any progress worth getting excited over,
or is this on the back burner?

Walter has been doing a bunch of work towards improving safe
stuff, which, as I understand it, is required for us to add
ref-counted classes. So, I think that it's on the back burner
in the sense that it's not currently being worked on directly,
but work _is_ being done towards it.
- Jonathan M Davis